Health
Hundreds of emus dead as bird flu spreads – Chronicle
Vets will spend the next two days culling thousands of emus and chickens after a bird flu outbreak.
Thousands of emus and chickens will be killed after an outbreak of bird flu in regional Victoria.
Veterinarians from Agriculture Victoria are on the farm in Kerang, three hours north of Melbourne, to euthanise the emu chicks.
The dramatic move came after 200 birds came down with avian influenza earlier this week, spreading to the emu farm in Kerang and an egg farm in the Golden Plains Shire.
The detection of bird flu at the two new farms takes the total number of affected farms to six, since …
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